View a sneak peek of FOR OUR CHILDREN, this Wednesday evening, 7:15pm at Grand Lake Theatre.

The evening will include a Q&A with members of the filmmaking team, including the film director, Débora Souza Silva and protagonist Rev. Wanda Johnson (mother of Oscar Grant), and moderated by Niema Jordan.

Wanda Johnson and Angela Williams, mothers of young Black men victimized by police brutality, come together and build a network of community-led support, mutual aid, and healing in this trenchant documentary spanning Oakland’s Fruitvale to the American South. 

Long before George Floyd’s murder and the BLM protests in 2020, Oscar Grant’s 2009 fateful encounter with law enforcement on a BART platform seeded public awareness and cultural consciousness of systemic racism and its discontents. Paying forward lessons learned and advocating against anti-Black violence in memory of her son, Oscar, Wanda Johnson holds space for Angela Williams, whose teen son, Ulysses, survives a police encounter in Troy, Alabama, living to tell his story. 

Radical empathy fuels this timely exposé.

The Grand Lake Theatre is ADA accessible.